Theo: $400k of Codex got nowhere, $20k of Opus shipped it
Theo says five months and roughly $400k of Codex tokens produced nothing on his Rust rewrite of the TypeScript compiler, then about $20k of Opus finished it in two weeks. He says he has not read a single line of the code.
Real money
Theo ships a Rust TypeScript compiler after $400k of Codex got nowhere
Theo released tsc-rs, a drop-in open source rewrite of the TypeScript compiler, type checker and LSP in Rust, built entirely by agents over five months.
I have not read a single line of the code.
What changed under us
Musk says SpaceX will route Grok tasks to Claude, MidJourney and Suno
Elon Musk says SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task on its Grok bot, naming Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs. No routing details, costs or quality comparisons were given. Matt Shumer called it extremely good news for users of the bot.
Founder fights
DHH and Naval split on what free Adobe clones actually prove
A set of Adobe products reimplemented from scratch as free and open source set off an argument about whether that is disruption or a knockoff. DHH asked how many pencils, humans and hours recreating the Adobe suite by hand would have taken, and when told it was just a discounted knock-off, answered that the discount is 100%.
Yeah, the discount is 100%. Unsurprisingly that appeals to a lot of people who are tired of Adobe's subscription dark patterns.